Survey of pollinators
Apart from honey bees and perhaps a few butterflies, there are very few insects with “celebrity status”. Even though many species play an important role...
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Bacteria-shredding insect wings inspire new antibacterial packaging
Key points:Credit: RMIT University Key points: Antibacterial texturing kills bacteria, extending food’s shelf life. Comes amid huge demand to improve the lifespan of food products,...
A whale’s tale: the story hidden in their mouths
Baleen plates – the signature bristle-like apparatus toothless whales use to feed – reveal how these large aquatic mammals adapt to environmental changes over time.Credit:...
Leveraging AI to work with cells
One of the ultimate goals of medical science is to develop personalized disease diagnostics and therapeutics. With a patient’s genetic information, doctors could tailor treatments...
TTUHSC receives NIH grant to examine impact of vitamin A depletion on Alzheimer’s disease
Ongoing research suggests that an accumulation of toxic reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the area of the brain known as the hippocampal dentate gyrus may...
Sponges, not just their microbes, make biologically potent compounds
SAN DIEGO, March 20, 2022 — Soft and immobile, sea sponges may appear inert, but these simple animals are rich with chemistry. From them, scientists...
‘Worm-on-a-chip’ device could someday help diagnose lung cancer
SAN DIEGO, March 20, 2022 — Dogs can use their incredible sense of smell to sniff out various forms of cancer in human breath, blood...
Researchers map human sensory neurons, pursue chronic pain cure
An investigation into how human nerve cells differ from animal cells has provided researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas’ Center for Advanced Pain Studies (CAPS)...
Lung tissue from the lab
Laboratory studies of lung tissue usually require the removal of large amounts of human or animal tissue. Now scientists from the University of Freiburg’s Faculty...
Ancient ancestors evolved to be strong and snappy, study finds
Researchers led by the University of Bristol show that the earliest jaws in the fossil record were caught in a trade-off between maximising their strength...
Antabuse may help revive vision in people with progressive blinding disorders
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found that a drug once widely used to wean alcoholics off of drinking helps to improve sight...
‘Switching off’ specific brain cells protects against stress
Osaka, Japan – It is well known that long-term exposure to stress can lead to serious psychiatric problems. However, the precise mechanisms underpinning the stress...
Genetic changes associated with dog aging are more about quantity than quality
Investigating the activity of genes in dog brain tissues revealed that a large portion, 16,000 out of 20,000 genes are active in all animals, and...
March research news from the Ecological Society of America
From Ecosphere: Credit: Anna Pérez-Umphrey From Ecosphere: Pathogenic hantavirus persists in marsh rice rats near New Orleans Author contact: Anna A. Pérez-Umphrey ([email protected]) According...
New strategy reduces brain damage in Alzheimer’s and related disorders, in mice
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common and best known of the tauopathies, a set of neurodegenerative brain diseases caused by toxic tangles of the protein...
